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RefNoCMP/8/32
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date13 June 1901
DescriptionPrinted minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.

Commencing with a list of Council members present: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Vernon Boys; Horace Tabberer Brown; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); William Carmichael McIntosh; Ludwig Mond; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Arthur Rucker (Secretary); Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Death of Professor John Viriamu Jones.
[not numbered] Treasurer to write to Sectional Committees on the great expense of publishing Philosophical Transactions.
3. Report of the 'Committee of six' appointed by the Joint Antarctic Committee: noting that responsibility for over-wintering or not should rest with the Commander; and reproducing telegrams and letters in correspondence with Professor Gregory, resigning from the position of Head of the Civilian Scientific Staff. Various resolutions follow, including a move to appoint Mr. G. Murray of the British Museum in Gregory's place.
4. Interest from several Fellows in a bathymetical, physical and biological survey of the freshwater lakes of Great Britain: Mr. Laurence Pullar willing to set aside a sum to allow such a survey led by Sir John Murray.
5. The Mackinnon studentship had been advertised: a committee to be formed to assess candidates.
6. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a power of attorney to allow the Treasurer to collect stock dividends.
7. Report of the Government Grant Committee, with a list of grant recommendations from Boards A-G and totals; and other recommendations, including employment of a professional accountant to audit the grant accounts.
8. £80 from the Government Grant reserve fund allocated to Professor E. Wilson for experiments on shielding effects of induced currents in solid iron cores.
9. Instruments that were not suitable for preservation to be sold, with proceeds to be placed in the Government Grant reserve. Returned physical apparatus to be offered to the National Physical Laboratory
10. Application from the Linnean Society for Publication Grant funds to illustrate a paper by Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, turned down, as no funds were available.
11. Officers would bring forward proposals for the adminstration of the Publication Fund at the next meeting.
12. Letter from the Office of Works received by the National Physical Laboratory stating that an additional £3,000 would be required to establish the laboratory at Bushy House. This had been put to the Treasury for approval and the full text of a letter from Austen Chamberlain, Treasury Chambers, 7 June 1901, to the President of the Royal Society, notes approval. Amendments to the organisational scheme reproduced.
13. £10,000 from the London United Tramways Company had been contributed for the removal of Kew Observatory, with Treasury promising additional financial assistance.
14. Omission of certain ordinary meetings of the Society.
15. Sir John Evans nominated as a represetative to the King Alfred Commemorations at Winchester.
16. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: lists of names to be proposed and seconded at the next meeting of Council.
17. Consideration of the Sylvester Medal postponed until next Council.
18. H.M. the King had issued a new Warrant for a Board of Visitors to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
19. Letter from D. M. Probyn, Keeper of His Majesty's Privy Purse, 22 May 1901, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: giving the KIng's approval for the continuation of the Royal Medals, thanks to be returned.
20. The King had inscribed his name in the Charter Book at St. James's Palace on 3 May.
21. Lord Kelvin and Sir Joseph Hooker to represent the Royal Society at the ninth jubilee celebrations at the University of Glasgow; full text of a congratulatory address entered into the minutes.
22. List of Fellows willing to serve as members of the Meteorological Council.
23. Letter of thanks received from Professor von Leydig; seal of the Royal Society affixed to his diploma of Foreign Membership.
24. Copies of the standard yard and pound delivered to the Standards Department of the Board of Trade for comparison.
25. Letter from H.M. Treasury approving the assignment of Bushy House rooms to the Director of the National Physical Laboratory.
26. Photographs of sunspots taken at Ely and presented by the widow of Canon Selwyn to be deposited at South Kensington.
27. Letters of thanks from Sir G. G. Stokes and Lord Kelvin in response to congratulatory telegrams sent on the 50th anniversary of their elections.
28. Leave granted for the reprinting of papers and copying of illustrations.
29. Bills for books, engraving and lithography, and for other expenses.
Extent15p.; pp.204-218
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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